Books with author Carole Marsh

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Mimi reads an ad and thinks, "Hmm, would this make a great vacation home for a mystery-book-writing grandmother and her family and friends. Papa says, ìLet's take a look.î Soon, Christina and Grant are whisked off aboard the Mystery Girl airplane with Mimi and Papa to Transylvania, Romania where they meet up with a strange real estate agent, tour the famous castle, meet some odd new kid friends, learn about vampires, and meet up with Count Dracula himself!îWhy don’t you spend the weekend and see how you like the place?î the agent suggests. They do, and the mystery begins! Hey, is that tomato juice or what they’re serving for breakfast? You’ll Vant to Come Along on This Tooth-Tingling Adventure!This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, Built-In Book Club and activities. This book includes a map, inline glossary definitions, and lots more! This Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level and a Developmental Reading Assessment. LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Places: Bran Castle, Transylvania, Romania • Bucharest, Romania • Hungary Educational Items: History of Vlad Dracula • History and facts on Bran Castle • Teutonic Knights • Renaissance and Gothic styles • Explanation of different saloons • Italian Baroque Period • EntropyPeople: Bram Stoker, author of Dracula • Queen Maria • Nicoleta VolescuBelow is the Reading Levels Guide for this book:Grade Levels: 3-6Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.6Accelerated Reader Points: 2Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 121651Lexile Measure: 680Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: QDevelopmental Assessment Level: 40Get your FREE Resources!1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Around The World Correlations to Common Core/State Standards . 2. Download the Where in the World Have You Been map . 3. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussion and Book Club Activities .4. Utilize the Around the World Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 19 mysteries .5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters .

It's wet... it's loud... it's enormous! It's Niagara Falls! Grant and Christina can't wait to go on another trip with their grandparents Mimi and Papa. Mimi writes mysteries...and mystery never fails to follow the kids wherever they go... including this wild and wonderful place! Along with new friends Allison and David, Grant and Christina spy b-b-bouncing barrels... discover a secret room... visit a famous fort... ride a Ferris wheel (Whee!!!)... learn about locks... and solve a soggy mystery! Loook ouuut! There's another barrel coming down the falls! But what's in it? Hey-don't forget your raincoat! You're going to get WET!!! LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Daredevils that have tried to beat the falls in barrels: The Great Blondin - Annie Taylor - Dave Munday • Fort George: buildings and their uses, weapons used, uniforms worn by British • "Raid of the Mist" - Facts and folklore • The Underground Railroad • The War of 1812 - Historical Facts • Laura Secord, Chocolate Lady and Canadian hero • Francis Abbot • Whirlpools • Niagara Falls, both the Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls • Kingsbridge Park • Niagara Falls Daredevil Gallery • Fort George - Parade Ground - Powder Magazine • Newspaper Museum • Loof Menagerie Carousel at Lakeside Park on Lake Ontario in Old Port Dalhousie • Brick City • Puddicombe Estate Farms and Winery • Sir Adam Beck Generating Station and Station #2 • Lock 3 viewing platform at the Welland Canals • Bridal Veil Falls and the Cave of the Winds • Journey behind the Falls • Butterfly Conservatory in the Niagara Parks Botanical Garden • Clifton Hill District - Niagara Sky Ferris Wheel. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book:Grade Levels: 3-6Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.7Accelerated Reader Points: 2Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 129391Lexile Measure: 780Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: QDevelopmental Assessment Level: 40 Get your FREE Resources!1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards .2. Download the Where Have You Been map .3. Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries .4. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities . 5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters .

Four real kids on a visit to New York City get gridlocked in a mystery that takes them on a wild hair-raising tour of the Big Apple's famous landmarks to find a priceless missing piece of history. How “Intrepid” do you have to be to solve this mystery full of fascinating historic facts? Grab a taxi and find out! But hold on tight for the ride!! LOOK what’s in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Fourth of July history • Facts and history about New York City and its Landmarks •Statue of Liberty history and facts • Liberty Island history • Ellis Island • Immigration • Puzzle and Problem Solving using Analytic techniques • Star-Spangled Banner Words • Empire State Building history and facts • USS Intrepid Museum history and facts • New York Harbor • Manhattan • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Central Park• Yankee Stadium • Times Square.Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, Built-In Book Club and activities. Each Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, and a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level.

How to Use the Basic Economic Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations. • Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. • Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. • Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes! Click to view sample pages from this book.Tips: • Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. • Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. • To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click .• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The Basic Economic Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes: • Reading for Information• Higher-Order Thinking• Writing Problems• Primary Source Analysis• Vocabulary• Graphic Organizers• Map Activities• & More! Here is the Table of Contents for the Basic Economic Concepts - Common Core Lessons and Activities book: Needs and Wants: Reading Informational Text GExchange & Money: Reading Informational TextScarcity, Choices, & Costs: Reading Informational TextGetting in Line: Primary Source AnalysisCost & Benefit of Choices: Graphical Analysis GCommunities: Consumers & Producers: Reading Informational Text "A Double Hold-up": Primary Source AnalysisFactors of Production: Graphical Analysis GIncentives: Reading Informational TextSupply and Demand: Data AnalysisEconomic Flowchart: Vocabulary GFactors Affecting Supply & Demand: Compare & Contrast GO1Economic Consequences: Cause & Effect GAdam Smith & Free Markets: Reading Informational TextEconomist Quotations: Summarizing Information GEconomic Systems: Reading Informational Text GO2Entrepreneurship: WritingBanks, Savers, & Borrowers: Reading Informational TextGovernment & Taxes: Reading informational Text GCommon Core State Standards CorrelationsG: Includes Graphic OrganizerGO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download .(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

The perfect reference guide for students in grades 3 and up - or anyone! This handy, easy-to-use reference guide is divided into seven color-coded sections which includes Georgia basic facts, geography, history, people, places, nature and miscellaneous information. Each section is color coded for easy recognition. This Pocket Guide comes with complete and comprehensive facts ALL about Georgia. Riddles, recipes, and surprising facts make this guide a delight! Georgia Basics section explores your state's symbols and their special meaning. Georgia Geography section digs up the what's where in Georgia. Georgia History section is like traveling through time to some of Georgia's greatest moments. Georgia People section introduces you to famous personalities and your next-door neighbors. Georgia Places section shows you where you might enjoy your next family vacation. Georgia Nature section tells what Mother Nature gave to Georgia. Georgia Miscellaneous section describes the real fun stuff ALL about Georgia.

“His head is missing?” Michele asked. “Whose head?” When the answer turns out to be Blackbeard, fiercest pirate of the all. Four kids set off on a real adventure in North Carolina’s real pirate haunt port town of Bath. While struggling to recover a special prop and save an outdoor drama, the kids learn about the Golden Age of Piracy up and down the American coast from Maine to Florida. They also learn a lot of history, solve a mystery, meet a legend and much more! They have a lot of Jolly Roger laughs! But do they find the treasure? Hmm, would they tell? “Avast! This mystery’s a treasure trove of fun!” LOOK what’s in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Blackbeard’s death • History of Bath, NC • Bath geography • History of Ned Teach a.k.a. Blackbeard • Amphitheaters • History of the Bonner family and Bonner’s Point • History of the Palmer-Marsh House • Information on St. Thomas Church • Lustre • Pontipool • Mary Ormond, Blackbeard’s wife • Legend of the Magic Horse Tracks • Sailors’ mirrors • Erosion • Bath Creek • Teach’s Hole, Ocracoke Island, NC • Plum Point, Bath • Buzzard Inn, • Bath Public Library • St. Thomas Cemetery • Van Der Veer House • Magic Horse Tracks near Washington, NC.Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, Built-In Book Club and activities. Each Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, and a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level.

Each desk-sized “FunSheet” includes original illustrations are designed to be colored with markers, colored pencils, or crayons. The “FunSheet” includes YOUR state name, statehood information, state flag, state seal, and lots of state symbols and facts for kids to read, color, and learn, PLUS a state symbols word search and maze. The oversized 11” x 17” “FunSheet” gives kids lots of room to show their creativity and include lots of educational value! You can even laminate the fun sheets to use throughout the year as desk-sheets, placemats, wall displays, and more! These attractive coloring and activity sheets make it fun to learn about YOUR state’s symbols and other important facts. Each pack comes with 30 sheets. Put the “FunSheet” in the hands of every student.

One Wobbly Ship! One New Baby! One String of Islands! A Bunch of Missing Coins! And a lot of Lost Colonists! Mimi tells Christina and Grant a mystery story about North Carolina’s Lost Colony, complete with two boisterous boys, kidnapped coins, a foggy graveyard, a missing friend, and a moonlight trip on an old sailing ship!LOOK what's inside this mystery - people, places, history and more! PLACES - North Carolina: Manteo's waterfront area • The Graveyard, Manteo • Kill Devil Hills • Sharktooth Sea • Rodanthe • Roanoke Sound • Shallowbag Bay on Ice Plant Island • Wingina, Chief of the Indians • Ocracoke Island Wild Ponies and Island Inn • Elizabeth II; Dimensions, Materials used, design. PEOPLE: Sir Walter Raleigh • John White • Eleanor Dare • Virginia Dare • Queen Elizabeth Blackbeard the Pirate • Mighty Midgetts of Chicamacomico • The Werowance. HISTORY: Legend of the Banks Pony • Elizabeth II • Difficulties in survival in the New World: Food and Habitat.Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book:Grade Levels: 3-6Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.4Accelerated Reader Points: 2Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 140441Lexile Measure: 890Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: QDevelopmental Assessment Level: 40 Get your FREE Resources!1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards .2. Download the Where Have You Been map .3. Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries .4. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities .5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters .

One creepy curator, two missing skulls, three batty bats, four funny friends and too many bones! An ordinary trip to see the dinosaurs at Chicago's Field Museum turns into a riot of mystery and laughs as four real kids gallivant all over town trying to learn about Chicago's past in order to solve the mystery and save the dinos. LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! "Sue," the Tyrannosaurus Rex on display at the Field Museum • Al Capone, Chicago gangsters, and the Roaring 20s • History of and facts about Navy Pier • History of the Field Museum of Natural History, and exhibits found therein • Bat facts • Berghoff Restaurant • Grant Park, Chicago ? Magnificent Mile • Navy Pier, Chicago • Printer's Row • Sears Tower. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book:Grade Levels: 3-6Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.1Accelerated Reader Points: 3Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 74563Lexile Measure: 780Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: QDevelopmental Assessment Level: 40 Get your FREE Resources!1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards .2. Download the Where Have You Been map .3. Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries .4. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities . 5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters .

The California Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is one of our NEW products for 2017! A true-time saver, the California Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.The California Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The California Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The California Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?Interactive Notebooks are great for students! Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources. The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity. Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers. And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests. Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers! You can easily customize your instruction. You direct the learning process and pace. You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz! You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments. You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects. And, you meet the unique needs of your students in each and every year!A true time-saver! Step-by-step teacher instructions Ready-to-use, reproducible pages Writing and reflection prompts Student letter Supply lists Rubric And more!This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.